Asked by: Colleen Fletcher (Labour - Coventry North East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals to the tribunals service in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England relating to (i) personal independence payments, (ii) employment and support allowance, (iii) jobseeker's allowance and (iv) universal credit were successful in (A) the most recent period for which figures are available and (B) each of the last three years.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Information about the outcomes of appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about the outcomes of (i) Personal Independence Payment (PIP), (ii) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and (iv) Universal Credit (UC) appeals for hearing venues covering (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England for the period requested.
The table below contains the requested information for (iii)Job Seekers Allowance (JSA):
| Coventry | West Midlands1 | England2 |
2019/20 | ~ | 27% | 39% |
2020/21 | ~ | ~ | 27% |
2021/22 | 80% | 42% | 28% |
Q1 2022/23P | ~ | 26% | 25% |
Q2 2022/23p | 0% | ~ | 17% |
Q3 2022/23p | ~ | ~ | 23% |
Notes:
SSCS data is normally registered to the venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. We cannot retrieve data based on the appellant’s actual address but can produce reports detailing the numbers of cases that were dealt with at one of our Regional centres or heard at a specific venue.
The proportion of successful appeals is based on the number of cases found in favour of the appellant at a tribunal hearing as a percentage of the cases heard at a tribunal hearing.
Data up to December 2022 in line with latest published statistics.
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.
These data may differ slightly to that of the published statistics as these data were run on a different date.
1. West Midlands includes the venues: Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Coventry, Nuneaton, Stoke, Telford and Worcester
2. Excludes SSCS Scotland Region and Wales Region.
~ Suppressed in line with official published stats
P Provisional, in line with published data.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people in traineeships were in receipt of (a) Universal Credit and (b) Jobseeker's Allowance in each of the last 12 months for which data is available.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The table below sets out the data the Department holds on the number of trainees who started a Traineeship that month who were recorded as claiming either Universal Credit or Job Seekers Allowance. The data is for the2021/22 academic year, which is the last 12 months of full reporting available. Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.
Month | Aug 21 | Sept 21 | Oct 21 | Nov 21 | Dec 21 | Jan 22 | Feb 22 | March 22 | April 22 | May 22 | June 22 | July 22 |
Universal Credit | 280 | 400 | 330 | 450 | 150 | 190 | 280 | 290 | 270 | 370 | 230 | 180 |
Job Seekers’ Allowance | 20 | 20 | 20 | 50 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | low | 20 |
It is not mandatory for providers to state whether a trainee is in receipt of benefits when completing the Individualised Learner Record, nor is there a requirement for those claiming benefits to declare this information when enrolling on a Traineeship. This data may not be fully representative of the numbers of trainees in receipt of benefits.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what was the average amount of time between a person first receiving Jobseeker's Allowance and receiving a job offer, for people who gained employment in the past year.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what was the total (a) expenditure on and (b) number of benefit claimants receiving Job Seekers Allowance in each of the last five years, in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales, (iv) Northern Ireland, (v) each local authority and (vi) each constituency.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The available information on the number of claimants who received benefits in the last five years, broken down by various geographies, is published and can be found on Stat-Xplore. Benefits include Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Income Support, Jobseekers’ Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Personal Independence Payment.
You can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, you can access guidance on how to extract the information required.
Benefit statistics for Northern Ireland are published by the Department for Communities.
Asked by: Stephen Farry (Alliance - North Down)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the (a) New Style Contributory Employment and Support Allowance, (b) Contribution-based Jobseeker's Allowance and (c) Income-related Jobseeker's Allowance will be uprated by the inflation rate announced in his Autumn 2022 Statement.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Yes, they will.
Asked by: Baroness Altmann (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much the threshold for (1) income support, (2) income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, (3) income-related Employment and Support Allowance, (4) housing benefit, (5) child tax credits, and (6) pension credits, has increased (a) in line with inflation, and (b) in monetary terms, each year since 1997.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott
For the benefits listed there are many different rates. The tables in the spreadsheet attached show a selection of illustrative examples for each benefit in both cash and real terms.
Child Tax Credits are administered by HMRC and are not a DWP responsibility. Rates are therefore not provided here.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants have deductions attached to their claim for non-universal credit debts; and if he will publish a breakdown of the number of those claimants for each benefit.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The number of customers who had deductions from UC posted to non-UC debts on Debt Manager in October 2022 was 776,664.
The table below shows the benefit to which the deductions were posted. Note that the total number of customers who had deduction posted, will be fewer than the number shown in the table, as some customers will have had deductions posted to more than one debt in the month of October, the period covered by the table, e.g., one debt ended, and another commenced.
Benefit | Volume |
Attendance Allowance | 10 |
Affordable Credit Deductions Scheme | 7,280 |
Administrative Penalty | 480 |
Bereavement Allowance | 10 |
Carers Allowance | 28,430 |
CA Short Term Advance | 0 |
Civil Penalty | 4,800 |
Disability Living Allowance | 1,340 |
Disability Working Allowance | 0 |
Employment & Support Allowance: Contribution Based | 2,390 |
ESAC Short Term Advance | 10 |
Employment & Support Allowance: Income Related | 17,930 |
ESAIR Short Term Advance | 90 |
Employment & Support Allowance: New Style | 390 |
Exceptionally Severe Disablement Allowance | 0 |
Family Credit | 50 |
Housing Benefit | 86,120 |
Income Support | 42,330 |
IS Short Term Advance | 30 |
Incapacity Benefit | 1,250 |
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit | 0 |
Integration Loans Scheme | 2,310 |
Invalidity Benefit | 10 |
Jobseeker's Allowance: Contribution Based | 410 |
JSAC Short Term Advance | 110 |
Jobseeker's Allowance: Income Based | 9,870 |
JSAIB Short Term Advance | 540 |
Jobseeker's Allowance: New Style | 1,280 |
Maternity Allowance | 140 |
Pension Credit | 190 |
Personal Independence Payment | 1,640 |
Reduced Earnings Allowance | 0 |
Retirement Pension: Contributory | 10 |
Non-Contributory Retirement Pension Short Term Advance | 0 |
Sickness Benefit | 0 |
Severe Disablement Allowance | 50 |
Social Fund Budgeting Loan | 112,690 |
Social Fund Crisis Loan | 40,110 |
Social Fund: Budgeting Loan Overpayment | 180 |
Social Fund: Community Care Grant Overpayment | 20 |
Social Fund: Crisis Loan Overpayment | 50 |
Social Fund Cold Weather Overpayment | 40 |
Social Fund: Funeral Payment Overpayment | 10 |
Social Fund: SS Maternity Grant Overpayment | 10 |
Supplementary Benefit | 50 |
Tax Credit Overpayment | 515,120 |
Non-UC Tax Credit Overpayment | 7,860 |
Unemployment Benefit | 10 |
Widow's Benefit | 10 |
Widowed Mother's Allowance | 40 |
Widows Pension | 10 |
Widowed Parent's Allowance | 460 |
Please note that the numbers provided have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people on Jobseeker's Allowance were not receiving Class 1 National Insurance credits in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Victoria Prentis - Attorney General
All claimants in receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance are entitled to receive Class 1 National Insurance credits and these are awarded automatically on an annual basis. Claimants cannot receive Class 1 National Insurance Credits in any week where their award is reduced by a sanction.
DWP does not hold data on each individual’s National Insurance credits.
Any UC claimant not receiving these credits should contact HMRC.
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has held recent discussions with the Welsh Government on requirements to attend the Jobcentre for people with health problems.
Answered by Julie Marson
Although there have been no recent discussions with the Welsh Government concerning Jobcentre attendance for people with health conditions, there is a well-established working relationship between the Department and the Welsh Government, ensuring that we work together on devolved and reserved areas effectively.
Our Work Coaches personalise the support provided for each individual claimant and vary the frequency and method of contact in line with the claimant’s needs, circumstances, and capability, including the use of digital and telephone channels where appropriate.
Asked by: Karen Buck (Labour - Westminster North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of unemployed (a) Universal Credit and (b) Job Seekers Allowance claimants who would have moved into work between 31 January and 26 June 2022 without the Way to Work campaign.
Answered by Julie Marson
No estimate has been made of the number of unemployed Universal Credit and Job Seeker Allowance claimants would have moved into work between January and June 2022 in the absence of the Way to Work campaign.